European Research Council Grants

ERC Awards secured through UL

ERC Starting Grants

Sarah Guerin

Associate Professor Sarah Guerin, Department of Chemical Sciences holds an ERC Starting Grant for her project Pb-Free - Piezoelectric Biomolecules for lead-free, Reliable, Eco-Friendly Electronics which investigates if electronics could become lead-free, reliable and eco-friendly.

ERC-2021-STG

Eoghan Cunnane

Associate Professor Eoghan Cunnane, School of Engineering holds an ERC Starting Grant for his project RE3MODEL- Representative, Reliable and Reproducible in vitro Models of the Human Testes which will focus on the area of male infertility by characterising the relevant properties of human testicular tissue, and establishing their effects on resident cell function.

ERC-2021-STG

Paul Maher

Associate Professor Paul Maher, Department of Psychology holds a Starting Grant for early career researchers for his project Identity Error which will establish a new method of psycho-social identity modelling and enable researchers to understand how social groups help people determine truth from falsehood.

ERC-2025-STG

ERC Consolidator Grants

Mike Quayle

Professor Mike Quayle, Department of Psychology and a Funded Investigator with Lero, Research Ireland Centre for Software hosted at UL, holds ERC Consolidator Grant for ID-COMPRESSION, which seeks to make a fundamental breakthrough in social identity, social information, and social polarisation.

ERC-2023-COG

ERC Advanced Grants

Mike Zaworotko

Professor Mike Zaworotko, Department of Chemical Sciences, Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering and Research Ireland Research Professor holds an ERC Advanced Grant.

SYNSORB - SYNergistic SORBents will address the high energy footprint of gas and vapour purification by single-step purification processes that involve the use of a new generation of solid materials called sorbents.

ERC-2019-ADG

Orla Muldoon

Professor Orla Muldoon, founding professor at the Department of Psychology and Director for the Centre for Social Issues Research at UL, holds an ERC Advanced Grant for SIMTIC - A Social Identity Model of Trauma and Identity Change: A Novel Theory of Post-Traumatic Stress, Resilience and Growth

The project will develop a new social paradigm to understand the impact of extreme stress and trauma and explore the foundations of differing responses to stress and trauma.

ERC-2019-ADG

Previous ERC Grants

Grant Type	Project	Principal Investigator	Award
Starting Grants	SOFT-PHOTOCONVERSION - Solar Energy Conversion without Solid State Architectures: Pushing the Boundaries of Photoconversion Efficiencies at Self-healing Photosensitiser Functionalised Soft Interfaces	Mícheál D Scanlon	ERC-2016-STG
Starting Grants	DAFINET - Dynamic Attitude Fixing: A novel theory of opinion dynamics in social networks and its implications for computational propaganda in hybrid social networks (containing humans and bots)	Mike Quayle	ERC-2018-STG
Proof of Concept	Attitude-Maps-4-All - Delivering a useable method for mapping groups in attitude networks by developing a robust prototype, development community, and exploitation model to maximize the social value of the breakthrough	Mike Quayle	ERC-2022-POC1
Proof of Concept	ACAP - Asset Centric Adaptive Protection	Bashar Nuseibeh	ERC-2015-POC

European Research Council (ERC) grants are the most prestigious grants in European Research.

ERC grants fund 'blue-sky' research or leading edge research across all academic fields.

Four core grant schemes are offered: Starting Grants; Consolidator Grants; Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants.

While with its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to explore the innovation potential of their ideas or research results.

Please contact our EU Research Team if you are looking to apply for an ERC grant in UL.